Haileywood - Westward Hoax: The Secret History of Palisade, Nevada

Westward Hoax: The Secret History of Palisade, Nevada

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04/10/24 • 34 min

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In the 1870s, Palisade, NV was the meanest little town west of the Mississippi. Every week, newspapers announced another gunpowder-fueled cowboy showdown. Palisade put the wild in the “Wild West.”

But there was a lot more to the story that didn’t make the papers.

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Haileywood - Westward Hoax: The Secret History of Palisade, Nevada

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Imagine it's eighteen seventy six and you're riding the passenger trains from Chicago to San Francisco. The steam engine has rumbled through the Great Plains, wheeled up the rockies, and descended onto the vast salt flats of Utah. Now you're surrounded by the desert of Nevada. The train bends around a canyon and slows ahead. You see a little tow